Criminal gangs have terrorized northwestern and central Nigeria for years.

The UNICEF says at least one million Nigerian children could miss school amid a rise in mass school kidnappings and insecurity.

Seventy-five children who were kidnapped from a school in the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara have been r released.

Gunmen have killed 12 Nigerian security forces in a raid on a military base in northwest Zamfara state.

Unknown gunmen attack a school in the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara and kidnap 73 students, just days after three other groups of hostages were freed when large ransom payments were reportedly made in the African country.

A number of abducted children in northern Nigeria are freed from captivity after three months and are waiting to be reunited with their families.

The Takfiri Boko Haram terrorist group attacks a military post in southern Niger, killing 16 soldiers and wounding nine more, the Nigerien Defense Ministry says.

Desperate Nigerians are caught in the midst of a rash of abductions across the impoverished northwest of Nigeria, where thousands of bandits ask for hefty ransoms from families in return for their kidnapped children.

The armed gangs in the region terrorize inhabitants by looting villages, stealing cattle, and taking people hostage.

Nigerian police have killed three people and wounded a dozen more after attacking Ashura mourners in Nigeria’s Sokoto state, a report says.